Passed with five votes shy of the solid majority needed to override the President's promised veto

[Read More]Dr. Daniel McChesney of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center of Veterinary Medicine enjoyed the conference before his presentation on “Exporting FDA Regulated Products to the U.S.”

“The U.S. Grains Council welcomes the announcement of an aggressive stewardship program for the release of Syngenta seed trait Agrisure Duracade to minimize the risk of export trade disruption. It is important for all sectors of the value chain -- individual farmers, technology providers, shippers and exporters alike -- to recognize the potentially significant international implications of their actions. The Council therefore urges producers who choose to plant Agrisure Duracade in 2014 to adhere carefully to their stewardship responsibilities in order to minimize the risk to U.S. export sales.

“Today’s unfortunate reality is that biotechnology approval systems around the world are...

Kazakhstan, one of the world's largest grain exporters, harvested 14.5 million tons of wheat in 2013. In 2012 the harvest was 12.8 million tons. In 2011 the country saw a record high grain harvest at almost 27 million tons.

According to a BMO Economics Agriculture Report, released today, the Canadian livestock industry is set to benefit from a variety of factors this year, including lower feed costs, the weaker loonie and expected stronger economic growth on both sides of the border. Between the bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE) crisis, fluctuating feed prices, the global recession, and the longer-term appreciation of the loonie, Canadian hog and cattle producers have faced almost every conceivable challenge over the past decade or so, said Aaron Goertzen, Economist, BMO Capital Markets. Fortunately, the pendulum has finally started to swing in the other direction, which has positioned the industry...

Feb. 22--Wisconsin farmers aren't finding much humor in a new television comedy that has exploding cows and an underlying serious message critical of large-scale agriculture.

Produced by the restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill, the comedy series "Farmed and Dangerous" satirizes the lengths to which corporate agribusiness and its image-makers go to create a positive image of industrial agriculture, Chipotle says.

The first episode of the show, which began this past week on Hulu and Hulu Plus, focused on farmers planning to feed cows petroleum pellets -- a move meant to boost profits by lowering costs but which backfires when a cow explodes.

Cargill Inc, the top exporter of U.S. grain and oilseeds, said it will reject crops containing a new genetically modified Syngenta AG corn trait that are delivered to its grain elevators for export contracts.

Corn seeds containing Syngenta's Agrisure Duracade trait are available for planting in the United States for the first time this year after U.S. authorities cleared the trait in 2013. The trait has not been approved for import by China or the European Union, both major buyers of U.S. crops. To read more click here.